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Engaging anthropological theory : a social and political history /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second Edition, Fully revised Second Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Of politics and paradigms
- 2. Claims and critiques of anthropological knowledge
- 3. Anthropology before anthropologists
- 4. Theory and practice to change the world
- 5. Heirs to order and progress
- 6. Spencer, Darwin, and the evolutionary parables for our time
- 7. The Boasian Revolution
- 8. Culture and Psychology
- 9. Functionalism, the pure and the hyphenated
- 10. Anti-structure and the collapse of empire
- 11. Evolution redux
- 12. Contemporary materialist and ecological approaches
- 13. Symbols, structures, and the "Web of Significance"
- 14. Postmodern political economy and sensibilities
- 15. The contemporary anthropological moment.